The Narrator
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Exile and Former Proconsul/Slave
A Babylonian who has experienced extreme vicissitudes of fortune, including being a proconsul, a slave, and invisible, and who is now far from Babylon, hurriedly dictating his account before his ship sails.
In The Lottery in Babylon (Jorge Luis Borges, 1944)
Possibly the same character
Same author, same name, in other works — cross-work identity is not asserted here, only suggested. Nartopo tracks character identity per work; these are separate pages that may or may not depict the same character.
- The Narrator in An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain (1944)
- The Narrator in Funes the Memorious (1944)
- The Narrator in Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1944)
- The Narrator in The Library of Babel (1944)
- The Narrator in The Sect of the Phoenix (1944)
- The Narrator in Theme of the Traitor and the Hero (1944)